Enrollment
349
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ORANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 341761000182
Mount Pleasant Elementary School
9 MANGER ROAD, WEST ORANGE, NJ 07052 · (973) 669-5480 · Essex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL349 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
114 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Mount Pleasant Elementary School→Edison Middle School
Based on grade levels within West Orange Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
75.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
69.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.3% | 69.1% |
| 2023-24 | 70.4% | 62.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mount Pleasant Elementary School
Mount Pleasant Elementary School's state test result (65.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Elementary School this school | 349 | 32.7% | 65.9% |
| Conerly Road School Somerset | 350 | 31.1% | 47.0% |
| MacAfee Road School Somerset | 405 | 33.1% | 47.3% |
| Redwood Elementary School W ORANGE | 446 | 30.7% | 62.9% |
| Livingston Elementary UNION | 485 | 37.5% | 48.5% |
| Connecticut Farms Elementary UNION | 430 | 42.8% | 45.3% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mount Pleasant Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #215 of 1,290 | #24 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #257 of 1,319 ▲ 74 | #31 of 141 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.3% | #162 of 1,319 ▲ 71 | #26 of 141 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 349 | #905 of 1,562 | #107 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #329 of 1,390 | #16 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.9% | #20 of 1,392 | #2 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.7% | #816 of 1,481 | #89 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #651 of 798 | #57 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
349
+8 (+2%) vs 2020
-5% since 2000-01, when it was 369
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 349 | 35 | 10.0:1 | 33% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 355 | 32.8 | 10.8:1 | 33% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 349 | 31.8 | 11.0:1 | 28% (97) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | 31 | 11.0:1 | 21% (73) |
| 2017-18 | 364 | 32.4 | 11.3:1 | 25% (91) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 32 | 11.9:1 | 27% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 28 | 14.4:1 | 23% (91) |
| 2000-01 | 369 | 22 | 16.8:1 | 13% (48) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Pleasant Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (364 to 349); teachers up 8% (32.4 to 35).
About Mount Pleasant Elementary School
Mount Pleasant Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of WEST ORANGE, New Jersey. The school had 349 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Within West Orange Public Schools, Mount Pleasant Elementary School is one of 13 schools. The district enrolls 6,616 students.
The most common group at Mount Pleasant Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 32%. Enrollment also includes 32% Black, 18% White, 10% multiracial, and 9% Asian. Mount Pleasant Elementary School's diversity index is 75%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1 at Mount Pleasant Elementary School, with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.5 below the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 33%. Across public schools in Essex County, the average is 54%.
Mount Pleasant Elementary School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 89% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 48.3% for Mount Pleasant Elementary School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 65.9%. The 17.6-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
Federal survey data for Essex County show that the median household income is $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 249 public schools in Essex County, enrolling about 145,473 students in all.
The school nearest to Mount Pleasant Elementary School is Liberty Middle School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Mount Pleasant Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 349, close to the 341 recorded in 2020-21. The ratio was 11.0:1 in 2020-21 and 10.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Orange Public Schools
- West Orange High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
Other schools in WEST ORANGE
- West Orange High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- West Orange Early Childhood Learning CenterElementary · 54 students
- Betty Maddalena Early Learning CenterElementary · 49 students
Other Mount Pleasant Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 5 states are named Mount Pleasant Elementary. Mount Pleasant Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 8.
- Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolLIVINGSTON, NJ · 407 students
- Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolMILLVILLE, NJ · 193 students
- Mount Pleasant ElementaryMount Pleasant, NC · 679 students
- Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolWilmington, DE · 674 students
- MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSMITHTOWN, NY · 479 students
Nearby schools
- Liberty Middle School0.4 mi · 559
- Mount Pleasant Middle School1.3 mi · 530
- Mount Pleasant Elementary School1.3 mi · 407
- Kelly Elementary School1.3 mi · 451
- West Orange High School1.4 mi · 2,106
- St. Cloud Elementary School1.5 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolHow large is Mount Pleasant Elementary School?
Mount Pleasant Elementary School enrolls approximately 349 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Mount Pleasant Elementary School serve?
Mount Pleasant Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School?
Approximately 10.0:1 students per teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mount Pleasant Elementary School?
At Mount Pleasant Elementary School, the student body is approximately 18% White, 32% Hispanic, 32% Black, 9% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Mount Pleasant Elementary School public or private?
Mount Pleasant Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Orange Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.